I think you characterize this well: glen> Yes, therein lies the rub, the ever-present dissonance between objectives at one scale and objectives at another scale.
I (like to believe that I) live in a multi-scale multi-verse, meaning that when I "try real hard" or "meditate very effectively" I can pull back from the specifics of the *apparent* problem at hand (navigating paid family leave rules as a small business) and consider that my willingness (acquiescence) to engage in some sub-bureaucracy that seems to be nothing more than a "pain in my @ss" is truly in my best interest in the sense of being in the best interest of my "larger self", compared to the "smaller self" who is just trying to "clear some paperwork from my desk". I don't know how to tease apart your language about "there is no individual" in a way to slide clearly up and down the registers *I* experience as my "smallest or lowest" self to a "largest or highest" self. If I might achieve Satori/Enlightment then the distinction (duality?) of alone/all-one presumably collapses to an (at most) interesting delusion. I'm just not there. Is your own refutation of "the individual" the personal experience you have, or an intellectual abstraction to which you perhaps aspire to experience? - Steve - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
